LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7826, 19 May 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs llewlcy and Griffiths report tho sale of Air Edwin Nops' line 524 acre sheep farm, Kohiti Road, Inglewoc.J, to Mr L. W. Alexander, of Xcw Plymouth.

A -five-years'- pros Heating •warrant to prospect for petroleum over 1000 acre: of Crown lands in the Peeroa Srr ev District has been issued by tic ines Department.

During a period of forty-eight years to date New Zealand has exported 16,626,U1ez of gold, valued at £65,136,648, and 5,306,5130z of silver, valued at £057,153.

The survey of the Eltham-Opunako railway has been commenced. Messrs I<\ W: Furkett and P. S. Dyson, the l'ublic Works Department's engineers, went over the route on Monday, and a survey party is in camp at Hastings road. Kv Dyson will remain lo superintend the work. j Since receiving the report of Dr. | Bell and Mr Hayes on the petroleum ( boring operations in Turanuki, the |Minister of Mines has, says the N.Z. ; Times, offered a grant of £3oo' if the bore is continued for a further depth of 100 ft. Its present depth is 2102 , feet.

A London correspondent states that I Miss Ada Crossley (now Mrs Muecke) I will not give up her musical career, j She will roside in London with her I husband until, at all events, he has ■finished his studies at the London Hospital.:

I In another column will be found particulars of a clearing sale of farm rtock to be held by Mr Newton King on Monday on account of Mr Joseph Crockett, who has sold his farm, The dairy cows ure a firstclass lot o|f well selectod Jerseys, Shorthorns, and crossbreds, and aro all early calvers ; the horses aro sound), staunch, and hard to beat in the district lor working. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock sharp, as there is a large quantity of machinery and sundries in addition to the live stock.

Mr W. S. Gilbert was lately requested by an Australian amateur composer to furnish the libretto of an opera on the old Savoy lines, His score, the amateur remarked, was perfectly certain to be satisfactory, for "he was born a musician, though he had been educated as a chemist." in answering to express regret at not being able to Comply, Mr Gilbert (ac_ cording to the Sporting and Dramatic News) said that he "should have preferred a born chemist who had been educated as a musician." Referring to his recent visit to Australia, Sir Joseph Ward told a re-, porter that ■there is' a very active i movement in the direction of cutting ,up large estates going on in Australia just now, and in some parts of New South Wales, where they have

been purchasing land for dairying purposes towards the sea coast, land has recently lx"en sold at £3O an acre. "Which shows," commented Sir I Joseph, "that tho.e who are taking I it up have confidence in their country and the future development of the .dairying industry." I "The whole cause of the unemployed is the huge blister of New South 1 Wales—this city of Sydney,'l said the State Premier to a deputation. People, would, he continued, stick to tho city. As he travelled about he had noticed that while scores of men are .struggling in the city for a living, their brothers on a small piece of land in the country were doing well. llf they went to the father of a boy in a public school, he felt sure they would find that not one in n. hundred had 'any idea of sending his son on to the land, but was intent upon his being got into the Railway I'epartIment, or on making him a clerk. i Referring to the teaching of writing iii schools at the last meeting oi the Wanganui Education Hoard, the chairman remarked on the fact that tho clerk's in many mercantile firms and banks developed similar hands to each other, which was often quite characteristic of the house which employed thorn. One of the members, whose caligraphy is scarcely like cop-per-plate, thereupon remarked that he had never seen anybody write like he did, which drew from another member a reminiscence of the late Sir Julius

Vogel, whose writing, he declared, was so bad that compositors had to be paid extra for setting his articles up.

London is undoubtedly the worlds greatest market for musical prodigies, it has a special appetite for boy violinists, und s 0 they all come —Vecsey, Florizcl Von Rueter and a score more, almost tripping on each other's heels. The latest of the succession is the most astonishing of them all (writes a correspondent). He is a diminutive Russian, Mischa Elman (a compatriot to the 9-foot giant, Machnow, who is also thriv-

ing greatly in London), and confesses to thirteen years, though in his little knickerbockers and sailor jacket he looks younger. He is the son of a poor schoolmaster at Kcw, and a curious fact is that his parents, and his other near relations are .wholly unmusical. Equal to the most popular of his several predecessors in technique, ho surpassed them all by common consent in richness and purity of tone, and in liis rendering of tho musical meaning of what JlO plays. I A Frenchman returning home from a theatre in Paris late at night felt a slight tug at his coat-tail as he ,was walking through a dark sidestreet. He took no notice of tho ocbut when he emerged into ,the light he found that 0110 tail of ,his dress coat had been cut ofT. He mentioned the matter to a reporter, 'und the next day a newspaper had an account of the curious theft. In I the afternoon a man in a blue uni-

form called on him. "I come, monsieur," the man said, "from the bureau of police. We have captured asuspicious character who had in his. pocket a piece of fine black cloth. Let me have your mutilated coat, sir.

If the piece of cloth fits it, wo will know that we have apprehended the man who robbed you." The owner of course surrendered his coat, and from that day to this has heard no morJ about it. The pretended official was, of course, the thief, who had adopted that audacious meant) of getting the coat in order to attach it to the purloined tail.

Some further advocacy of his cheap motive power scheme occupied a portion of the Premier's speech at the presentation to Mr C. Soagnr on Friday.' Taking as his text a remark by one of the speakers regarding \\ie infant beginnings of the, moat wprks at Pefono and a lonsdead flax-mill, hil sa-jd that if the! colony had not kept abreast of tho I times, the flax and frozen meat industries would not have grown to their present dimensions.. It was now ocessary, he continued, if we wanted to further pursue the policy of keeping up to date, tp provide for 'cheap motive power. He had been, speaking with mature deliberation, 'the other day when ho had said that lif the colony spent a million' a year' to take advantage of the natural energy available, it would be in the [very best interests of our country. Ho predicted that our industries' would languish if cheap motive power were not provided, and he pointtd to America's widespread harness- ' ing of the natural forces at hand as an explanation of our inability to 1 j ompete with that country. Ho urged those present, who comprised gentlemen engaged in shipping and manufactures, to give the question . arcful attention.

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Another of the enjoyable sacred l concerts arranged by the choir of j St. Joseph's Church will be given on ] Sunday next, commencing at 8 p.m. I A collection .will be taken up in aid ; of the choir funds. ' | A general meeting of members of ; the Traders' and Employers' Associa- . tion will be held in the Council i Chambers at 7.45 to-night, when the Trades and Labour Council platform will be discussed. t Yisterday morning a young man named Maunice Kennedy, employed at ' Brown's mill, Morley -Street, met i with a painful accident by having tue j thumb and forefinger of one of his hands nearly severed by a circular I saw. Hopes are entei ..lined of the injured members being saved. The Spotswood settlement will be open for selection on lease in per- j peluity of allotments ranging from !) Co 27 acres, on and after Tuesday next. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Lands and Survey office, New Plymouth, and all provincial post offices and railway sUtions. Owing to the dissolution of part nership of Messrs Kowo and Pateiton, grain and seed merchants, the business will in future be carried o.i under thj name of William Hone. Mr Howe is well known throughout the district, especially in Southern Taranal-i, as a most successful business man, and nisi up-to-date methods! should ensure a continuance of the large patronage extended to the late firm of Howe and Paterson. In another column Mr Newton King; adv. rtisi'S a clearing sale of dairy cattle, farm stock, and implements,' to be held on Monday, May 22, at Carrington Road, near New Plymouth, en account of Mr Jos. Croc|kett, who has sold his farm. Thisiis an excellent dairy herd, contain- | ing a large proportion of ShorthornI Jersey cross, and being early carvers should be well worth the attention of anyone desiring to increase their I herd for the coming season. I A lady in Christchureh recently lost a talking cockatoo which could say several nice things-. After a hunt and many inquiries for the lost pet, she advertised her loss, and even then there were no tidings. Two gentlemen strolling about town the other day heard several remarks being passed over their heads, and detected the following sentences : "Kiss Joey, ' Missus gone to Kaiapoi." This caused them to feel curious, and presently they discovered cocky. Means were taken to capture the bird with success, arid it was restored to its owner. The moral is that talking cock'atoos might be taught to say "I belong to Mrs Blank, of Blank Street, . which would probably ensure the return of stray birds to the police station or the owner.

So far as the quality of the crop is concerned, the .hops harvest at Nelson js reported on as. the best for, a number of years past, although the crop is below the average m volume, 'being estimated at about 3800 bales. Of this quantity about 2000 bales will be used by the New Zealand brewers, the balance will be exported to Australia and England, The market price is Is 3d to Is 4d per lb f.0.b., according to quality, and the price paid to growers wr.s from Is to to Is Id per lb. Thecost of picking, which is done by women and children, amounted this season to between £IO,OOO and £12,000. Growers state that the cost of labour, cultivating, etc., and putting tho hops on the market, amounUt to about 8d per lb. The crop averages about lSewt to 20cwt to the acre, and every year sees an increase in tho area devoted to the cultivation of hops in the Nelson district.

The borough engineer, reporting to the Works Committee, said that the work of rendering the tunnel in connection with the water scheme would probably be finished Saturday, when he would again test the work by letting in tho water from the. intake. The work of touching up defective spots in the asphalting of the reservoir would be finished by Friday night. The chamber would then be perfectly tight. Pfcojgress at the! septic tank" had been rather slow during the fortnight, owing partly to the bad weather and to the contractor not having the necessary

ironwork forward. In the meantime the contractor was engaged in the construction of the intake and outlet chambers. The work of fencing at the abattoir had been commenced. The pipe laying had been finished in Powderham Street,, and he had

opened up Curtie Street from Tarunaki Lane to. Gill Street. A start had been made by the contractor with the Queen Street culvert* ■ The congregation in the New Ro-

man Catholic Basilica at Invcrcargill had a startling, but, fortunately, almost harmless experience at the morning service recently (soys the Southland News) s Archbishop Redwood was in the middle of his eloquent sermon, and. had the close attention of the whole congregation, when there was a sudden splash of water in the centre of the church. It was soon discovered lhat it came from above, in a regular jet, as tho Condition of quite a number of hats and coats in the vicinity testified. It appeared that the builder was rather nervous about fire, and had in the dome a length of hose, which was

connected with an outside tap. A .youngster strolling, round the church turned the tap, hence the deluge, lhe incident caused rather a stir in the church, many people being inclined to stampede, as they were unable to see what was wrong, and their vivid imaginations were quick to supply any horror. Dr. Redwood however, coolly continued his address, and his example was not without effect, as. no one~ o xcept those who had been wetted—left the build--1BS«

I Stung, doubtless, by the numerous attacks that have from time to time been mate on the growing colonial habit oi leaning up against a tree and sending to Mr Carnegie whenever tho occasion arises for raising money lor any public work", the parishioners of All Sain(.s, Foxton, have decided, after a lierce internal com-

bat, not to ask the famous library dispenser for some money for the new organ fund, Thp local paper describes the proceedings which culminated In this heroic doeision. At the an-

uual meeting of the parishioners, the proposal to approach Mr Carnegie was duly made, and fomnally the vicar. A blushing, nervoiifPlooking young scribbler, sa\s the Herald, rose in his wrath and denounced the idea. The motion, howcrer, was carried by six votes to one and then the mover decided to ask the ladies to vote. This resulted in the odds against the proposal being i rpduped fyoni nlno to seven, and then I

the mover capitulated' because the meeting was not unanimous. The self-reliant people of Fo.xton are rejoicing that they will not become an object of scorn to the world for seeking Mr Car.negip'g bounty,

I As tho British cruiser Amphitrito was passing out of Hong Kong Harbour recently, on hor voyage Home (the Hong Kong correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes) a very pleasing incident occurred, illustrative of the friendship existing be- \ tween tho States and Britain. The

American flagship Wisconsin was anchored in tho harbour, and, as the passed, with the paying|Oil pennant streaming from her foremast, and crowded with homeward-

bound men from.deck ports to trucks, the American band played "God Sfivp the King," and the sailors fol. lowed if, up by th):ee mousing cheers. Pur Japk' Tars respqnded, choeriiig as only Jack Tars can, and thu jstrains; of '■' Hail, Columbia," wore I wafted auross tho water to tho Am*

jericftii warshjp, A line of signals, I reading : <■< Good-bye ; ji pleasant voyjage and a save return to your ship, officers and crew," fluttered from the Wisconsin's rigging, and the Amph'itj'Uo replied, "Th.an! { you; twit (wishes to your Adniilral. officers and

• lnen.'-S The British bluejackets hud been fraternizing with the Americans for the past few days, and the feelling between them was very cordial. .Doth are a good-natured lot of men,

and though lights ashore wore fairly plentiful, it was always British v. British, or American v. American, never British v. American. PHJ2UMP pppflg mjEpM^TTSM., Why still suffer from Lumbago, ay Rheumatism? Why continue to e»r dure thoss sharp shooting pains when '

KHEUMO will cure you ? The real cause of your torture is to be found in an over acid condition of thu I blood, and until the excess uric acid [has been driven out you will conj tinue to sulTer. Liniments and plasters may give temporary relief, but

lean never cure. Something is need-1 jed which will prevent its return, by I wmedying the oSQiting eousp. ! HHEUM.O is the only' remedy which ' will do this. It drives out the uric c acid, removes the swelling, and effects 1 a lasting cure. Sold by all chemists and stores at 2s Cd and 4s 6d » bottle. 9 (

No word has been received regarding the young man King-, who has been missing cm the mountain sino3 Monday. Snow has been fulling, nnd his recovery r.ow appears hopeless. Tho night workers on the Daily i News seem to have tapped a good . supply of. -''the milk of human kindness," for another welcome visitor, in the person of a committeeman of the railway social, came in last night with "nnabundance of good things." "Some Uwly at the back of it, 1 warrant," says our P.D.